Paul W. Beamish

Paul Beamish holds the Canada Research Chair in International Business at the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University, London, Canada. He is the author or co-author of over 50 books and 100 refereed articles. His books are in the areas of International Management, Strategic Management, and Joint Ventures and Alliances. He has been recognized as one of the top three contributors worldwide to the international strategic management literature. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of International Business Studies from 1993-97 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Academy of International Business.

At Ivey, he has taught on a variety of school programs, including the Executive MBA offered at its campus in Hong Kong and the new MSc program, with its major in International Business. From 1999-2004 he served as Associate Dean Research. He worked for Procter and Gamble and Wilfrid Laurier University before joining Ivey’s faculty in 1987. Beamish also has responsibility for Ivey Publishing (IP), the distributor of Ivey’s collection of over 4,500 current cases. Ivey Publishing is the world’s second largest producer and distributor of business case studies.

Professor Beamish (Bao Ming Xin in Chinese) has worked on Asia-specific issues for many years. He has written case studies and/or conducted research involving China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam. He has served as a consultant to The World Bank on technology transfer to China, provided training programs in Asia for Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, and co-edited multiple series of casebooks published in Chinese. As Director of Ivey’s Asian Management Institute (AMI), he is overseeing a process which generates research about business in Asia, and which has resulted in over 600 new Asian cases being prepared.